Right after my mother passed away, I wondered what it would feel like when we all sort of adjusted to her no longer being with us. In some ways, the grief was stronger in the days leading up to her death. The dark, fearful anticipation of what it would be like when she was gone. […]
I’m always looking for good shows for my kids to watch and apps for them to interact with. And we have done a lot of traveling in the few short years that they have been alive. Here’s a list of some of our favorite FREE ones: Videos on YouTube: 2 Fish Talks I’ve started this […]
It’s cockroaches and invading ants. It’s weird croaking lizards that wake you up in the middle of the night, night after night because you don’t know how to catch them or even what they look like if you tried. It’s rats eating the garbage at night because people don’t own trash cans but throw their […]
When asked which law was the most important, Jesus responded with, “Love.” All the laws can be summed up in this one commandment: LOVE. If we love Jesus, we won’t sin. We will keep His commandments. I used to see this verse as an instruction, now I see it as a description. A description of […]
The underlying truth to the suggestion that God is a communicating God lies in His nature and character. It is literally impossible to read the Bible and not see God talking with His people in some form or another, and they in return, hearing Him. During the decade I served as a missionary in East […]
Have you ever read Jeremiah 32? I absolutely love this story in the Bible: the Babylonian army has moved in, and the land of Israel is under siege. They’re about to be overtaken by their enemies. In fact, God is saying YOU ARE going to be overtaken by your enemies. The situation is less than […]
Love, sex, and relationships. These 3 topics must be the source of most of the world’s joy and most of it’s pain. From a toddler’s tantrum to a full-blown world war, we need to know how to navigate these waters. These three “wisdom points” are all taken from Dean Sherman’s book, Relationships: The Key To Love, […]
I’ve long been fascinated with people, specifically their cultures. When I was a little girl, I would go to the library or our family’s set of encyclopedias (yes, pre-Google), and read about different countries and their practices. Sometimes I would try to make costumes like the ones I saw in the picture or food from […]
We’ve long heard it said that when we don’t know where we’ve been, we will no longer be able to tell where we are going. If we do not know our history, we do not know ourselves. This is as true within an individual as it is within a nation. We must understand where we are […]
Fascism can be defined as a group or movement that exalts it’s own ideas above all others. It is marked by a strong desire for control and zero tolerance for anyone who disagrees. Why are we talking about fascism on this Christian living blog? Because God is not a fascist. If we are to represent Him […]
